Note 1231 — Chapter VII

Sparks's Washington, i. 36; iii. 77. There is a memoir of Whipple, with a portrait (cf. also E. M. Stone's Our French Allies, p. 26), in Hildreth's Pioneer Settlers of Ohio (1852), pp. 120-164. There are letters of Whipple among the Com. Tucker Papers in Harvard College library. Few of the earlier captains made more captures than Samuel Tucker. Washington commissioned him in Jan., 1776. His reputation as a naval officer was mostly made during his command of the frigate "Boston", in one of whose voyages he took John Adams to France in 1778. The log of this voyage is preserved in Harvard College library, where are also a collection of Tucker's papers, embracing his instructions, correspondence, and logs. They have been used in John H. Sheppard's Life of Samuel Tucker (Boston, 1868), which is abridged by the author in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1872 (xxvi. 105). Cf. New Eng. Mag., ii. 138; Niles's Register, xliv. 140; and Johnston's History of Bristol and Bremen, Me.—Ed.